THE SATURDAY BOY

Posted on Friday January 27th 2012 at 02:03pm.

Saw this at the Prado - it was fucking terrifying. cavetocanvas: Jusepe de Ribera, Ixion, 1632 From the Museo del Prado,  Father to the race of centaurs, Ixion tried to usurp Jupiter’s place in Juno’s bed. His punishment was to eternally turn, tied to a wheel, to expiate his crime. In Ribera’s work, a Satyr has just chained him to the wheel and he makes it turn with the help of another Satyr standing behind it. The latter’s terrible face can be glimpsed in the Tartar’s shadow.Ribera offers us a violent image, with the condemned figure upside down, accentuating the dramatic tension by his use of light, the monumentality of the figures, their forced anatomies and their gestural expressivity.
Saw this at the Prado - it was fucking terrifying. cavetocanvas: Jusepe de Ribera, Ixion, 1632 From the Museo del Prado,  Father to the race of centaurs, Ixion tried to usurp Jupiter’s place in Juno’s bed. His punishment was to eternally turn, tied to a wheel, to expiate his crime. In Ribera’s work, a Satyr has just chained him to the wheel and he makes it turn with the help of another Satyr standing behind it. The latter’s terrible face can be glimpsed in the Tartar’s shadow.Ribera offers us a violent image, with the condemned figure upside down, accentuating the dramatic tension by his use of light, the monumentality of the figures, their forced anatomies and their gestural expressivity.

Saw this at the Prado - it was fucking terrifying.

cavetocanvas:

Jusepe de Ribera, Ixion, 1632

From the Museo del Prado, 

Father to the race of centaurs, Ixion tried to usurp Jupiter’s place in Juno’s bed. His punishment was to eternally turn, tied to a wheel, to expiate his crime. In Ribera’s work, a Satyr has just chained him to the wheel and he makes it turn with the help of another Satyr standing behind it. The latter’s terrible face can be glimpsed in the Tartar’s shadow.

Ribera offers us a violent image, with the condemned figure upside down, accentuating the dramatic tension by his use of light, the monumentality of the figures, their forced anatomies and their gestural expressivity.

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